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Just a little religious humor...
Just a little religious humor...
Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett are very disappointed...
I prefer Peter over Phil.
I prefer solo Gabriel over solo and Genesis Collins...not much of a fan of Genesis Gabriel. However, I DID like his stage costumes.
In too deep is a good song at least. Phil Collins wrote two good songs that I know of. In too deep and In the Air tonight.
I don't like organised religion for myself as I didn't get anything out of it.
I recall my uncle snapping at me that I was not athiest but agnostic since I can't prove God doesn't exist. That's fine then I'm agnostic. I won't hold an indivual's faith against them because someone else I know is hateful in the name of religion.
People will use many tools at their disposal to keep others feeling bad about themselves. Religion is only one of those but as a youngster it did convince me to ignore the various churches I'd been too. I didn't have enough life experience to seperate the hypocrites from the spirtual. I think spirituality can work for indivuals but as Mark Twain once said:
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
I don't have the right mindset to go looking outside of humanity for answers as I see all bibles as made by humans and just a part of it. I don't have it in me to believe in God/s or pagan wiccanism. Ths girl I work with regularly cries about being very staunch in her church and everyone else is bad, flitters between paganism because two other girls we work with are pagans, christian again, pagan, sobs and cries, christian because of her parents and old friends, then pagan, etc.
Jesus.
I'd love to believe in Harry Potter as an afterlife... [if heaven exists hopefully that be where I go]
I do think God, creationism has nothing to do with beauty if society dictates what is pretty. Not to mention the mugshots of crack and methheads throughout their criminal career prove.
You can become ugly. So genetics are just a step-up but not permanent.
Besides, beautiful people can be crazy too.
So is natural selection really all that selective either? Bipolar and manic depression and all that jazz.
Why if there is a god does he care about which country wins the olympics? I didn't get that one at all more so than favouring particular people with being pretty for a higher purpose.
In too deep is a good song at least. Phil Collins wrote two good songs that I know of. In too deep and In the Air tonight.
You must not know about this song...
You sound really normal and healthy and balanced.
Ya, this line of thinking is the ugly side of religion--tribalism, ethnocentricity, and xenophobia. It maims and kills.
But, atheism is not a theory. It states nothing. Show me why you believe it is a theory. Is not believing in pink elephants a theory? How?
If you are gonna be a member of the tribe, it would be helpful to have a good understanding of the terms and concepts that atheists sometimes employ. And at the very least, an accurate definition of atheism. You wouldn't, after all, want to profess to agree with something or rather, in this case, "the nothing" unless you knew what you were agreeing to.
But, I'm glad to have you on board. Cheers.
Just sent you a PM with a bit more on the rationale behind the "theory/non-theory" distinction.
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't furrowing my brow in reading your second paragraph. I'll confine myself to saying that my understanding of the " ...terms and concepts..." of atheism is altogether quite competent and informed.
But ....it's only the internet ... so , from one godless heathen to another - no hard feelings ?
but more interestingly what are you doing on the playboy site?
Great interview I particularly liked this ...
PLAYBOY: Do you have any deeply religious friends?
DAWKINS: No. It’s not that I shun them; it’s that the circles I move in tend to be educated, intelligent circles, and there aren’t any religious people among them.
but more interestingly what are you doing on the playboy site?
where's the actual proof the big bang even existed? it's all theories...we don't even have an exact date how old the earth is. never mind big bangs and that nonsense.
Hey Davie, you know the static you get on your TV when it is not tuned properly? Well, that static is proof of the big bang. It's pretty cool.
Love him. He tells it like it is.